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Well, it finally happened. We're accustomed to seeing photos of shuttered dead malls online before but it's different when it's one you grew up with.
Some of my earliest memories were of roaming with my mom on weekends in the mid-to-late 90s at Metrocenter Mall in Phoenix, Ariz. Dragging her to Suncoast Video after a ritual visit to Bath and Body Works next door. Watching the bursts of water in the water fountains. Going for the photos with the mall Santa every December. Observing the skylight fill the interior of the mall around midday. They're all memories now.
So, with that in mind, I visited the mall prior to its closing on June 30th, 2020. Seemed appropriate to document the mall's architecture, while there's still some pride left — prior to the vandals and scrapers breaking in and plunging it of cooper and other precious metals, thereby further impugning its value and reputation.
Will the mall be revitalized in the future? I don't know. But, when whole sections of the mall are unpopulated, by both tentpole brands and cars in the parking lot, and when new tenants like self-storage and popup ministries arrive, a mall's eminence is more near the end than the beginning.
And with that, a chapter of my life is about closed.
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
~Henry Miller~
More decaying wood I just had to shoot. No I didn't count the rings. Thank you for our comments and faves.
I have no idea why there are hundreds of aluminium carry out tray here. nor do I know why this shoe sits in this position..."If only I could speak..."
Peeling Billboard in a vacant block in Brisbane, Australia.
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I was pleased to see that the Pomathorn Paper Mill weighbridge was another machine from Henry Pooley & Son Ltd. of Liverpool and Birmingham.
I was dismayed, however, to find that the great platform was smashed in two. The pit is about three feet deep and the platform is a massive thick slab of ductile iron with huge longitudinal and lateral beams underneath. Quite how it came to be so comprehensively broken, given its 40 tonne capacity, is a distressing mystery. Did someone drive a tank over it? Did Pomathorn have a secret line making paper made from depleted uranium pulp? Did Dave Holladay attempt to weigh his trailer?
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